Snow White

[MaybeMaybeNot]

I am happy to report the new Snow White was really charming and delightful.  I am sucker for a well done musical. The new songs are fantastic,  the songs from the original movie are well done. It's nice to have people starring in a movie musical who can actually sing.  Rachel Zegler is glorious. Andrew Burnap is charming and super sexy. Gal Gadot pulls off her song well enough. I very quickly warmed up to the CGI dwarfs. I liked that they didn't recreate the original movie because those adaptations are never very good. The reports of its artistic demise were premature. 

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On 3/27/2025 at 4:41 PM, MaybeMaybeNot said:

I am happy to report the new Snow White was really charming and delightful.  I am sucker for a well done musical. The new songs are fantastic,  the songs from the original movie are well done. It's nice to have people starring in a movie musical who can actually sing.  Rachel Zegler is glorious. Andrew Burnap is charming and super sexy. Gal Gadot pulls off her song well enough. I very quickly warmed up to the CGI dwarfs. I liked that they didn't recreate the original movie because those adaptations are never very good. The reports of its artistic demise were premature. 

I saw this today because of your review. Your review is spot on. Agree with everything you said.  I really enjoyed this. Thank you.

[MaybeMaybeNot]

23 minutes ago, ApexNomad said:

I saw this today because of your review. Your review is spot on. Agree with everything you said.  I really enjoyed this. Thank you.

That makes me so happy! I saw it a second time. It is delightful. 

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19 hours ago, MaybeMaybeNot said:

That makes me so happy! I saw it a second time. It is delightful. 

That’s the perfect word: delightful. It really was. The new songs are great! I really like Pasek and Paul of the newer generation of songwriters. 

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On 3/30/2025 at 2:39 PM, ApexNomad said:

That’s the perfect word: delightful. It really was. The new songs are great! I really like Pasek and Paul of the newer generation of songwriters. 

I find their stuff hit or miss, mostly hit. These are some really good songs. I love their score to Dogfight, if you've ever heard that.  

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They are. They really elevated dated material.

Of their work, what do you consider a miss?

I saw Dogfight off Broadway and enjoyed it. Derek Klena has turned into a nice leading man.

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@ApexNomad I am by no means an expert on their library. I feel like, though,  their work falls into two camps. The first is traditional musical theatre where everything rhymes perfectly and develops an idea. The second is more pop-infused so is repetetive with imperfect rhymes. I prefer the musical theatre style.

That said, I appreciated the score to Dear Evan Hansen but didn't care for the show itself. I was one of the few not into La La Land. I enjoy the music to Greatest Showman but get distracted by the more pop lyrics. I don't remember much about A Christmas Story. 

 

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On 4/2/2025 at 4:05 PM, MaybeMaybeNot said:

@ApexNomad I am by no means an expert on their library. I feel like, though,  their work falls into two camps. The first is traditional musical theatre where everything rhymes perfectly and develops an idea. The second is more pop-infused so is repetetive with imperfect rhymes. I prefer the musical theatre style.

That said, I appreciated the score to Dear Evan Hansen but didn't care for the show itself. I was one of the few not into La La Land. I enjoy the music to Greatest Showman but get distracted by the more pop lyrics. I don't remember much about A Christmas Story. 

 

I see your points, interesting observations. I really love the music in Dear Evan Hansen, but I thought the story was weak. The movie was awful!! I agree with you on La La Land—it was okay. The Greatest Showman felt surface level, but I still got caught up in the music.

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On 4/2/2025 at 4:05 PM, MaybeMaybeNot said:

@ApexNomad I am by no means an expert on their library. I feel like, though,  their work falls into two camps. The first is traditional musical theatre where everything rhymes perfectly and develops an idea. The second is more pop-infused so is repetetive with imperfect rhymes. I prefer the musical theatre style.

That said, I appreciated the score to Dear Evan Hansen but didn't care for the show itself. I was one of the few not into La La Land. I enjoy the music to Greatest Showman but get distracted by the more pop lyrics. I don't remember much about A Christmas Story. 

 

 Check out one of their earliest works, the song cycle “Edges”- it masterfully combines a pop sensibility with musical theatre storytelling, and is IMO stronger writing than their more recent work. A couple songs from that piece…

 

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Ahhh...mystery solved !  Now we know who bought those two tickets to Snow White last week. Everyone thought those ticket buyers were going to remain anonymous. Brave for you two to step forward, I must say. 😂

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9 hours ago, Ali Gator said:

Ahhh...mystery solved !  Now we know who bought those two tickets to Snow White last week. Everyone thought those ticket buyers were going to remain anonymous. Brave for you two to step forward, I must say. 😂

More than 300K reviewers on IMDb have given it an average rating of 1.6 … Wow.

The 2025 Snow White’s box office is bombing.  I wonder how big Disney’s loss will be.

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2 hours ago, BSR said:

More than 300K reviewers on IMDb have given it an average rating of 1.6 … Wow.

The 2025 Snow White’s box office is bombing.  I wonder how big Disney’s loss will be.

Meanwhile, they could have re-released the 1930s version and made a killing, at no production cost

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4 hours ago, BSR said:

More than 300K reviewers on IMDb have given it an average rating of 1.6 … Wow.

The 2025 Snow White’s box office is bombing.  I wonder how big Disney’s loss will be.

It was review-bombed. Everyone knows that. The amount of racist hate I saw alone online for this movie was disheartening. Snow White brightened my day, and I loved it.  That's enough for me. 

 

2 hours ago, Vegas_Millennial said:

Meanwhile, they could have re-released the 1930s version and made a killing, at no production cost

Most young people today have not seen the movie. I wish they would bring it back on the big screen, but with it being readily available on Disney Plus, it's not likely it would have done well enough to warrant a reissue.

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The preview turned me off. Rachel Zegler is talented, but her facial details are off. Her eyes are too far apart for camera work. To my eyes, she looks very strange. I found it a challenge to watch her in West Side Story. Once she opened her mouth and went political, the movie was doomed. I thought Gal Gadot casting was a mistake. Very weak performance and impact. The whole dwarf controversy was so avoidable. Why was this remake even necessary? The financial loss on this film is staggering.

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Again, everyone knows the IMDB rating carries no weight since it was review-bombed. The only review aggregator that couldn’t be bombed was Cinemascore, which gathers data from people exiting theaters. There it earned a B+, the same as the hit Minecraft Movie.

Based on members who actually saw it, Snow White is 100% Fresh on Company of Men. 

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While I haven't been to the theater in years, I have recently rewatched the original Walt Disney's Snow White.  I can't help but hum "Someday My Prince Will Cum" whenever I think of that movie or see the castle at Disneyland in California (It was built as Snow White's castle, but is now Sleeping Beauty's castle.  However, there is Snow White's wishing well on the east side which was installed as part of the 1980s new Fantasyland.)